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Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence. -- Elie Saab
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. -- William Cowper
Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea. -- Marshall Sylver
I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left. -- Marc Wallice
Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are. -- Alber Elbaz
This is God's beauty!The Elegant nature of Esther,The Meek nature of Moses,The Pius nature of Paul,The Passionate nature of Peter,The Just nature of Jesus and thenThe wise nature of you! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching need for the infinite, a hunger for more than matter can provide. -- Thomas Dubay
There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down. -- Laurie Colwin
You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect. -- Josh Lanyon
Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind.A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an invaluable treasure.Dusk rain on the river, the moon peeking in and out of the clouds;Elegant beyond words, he chants his songs night after night. -- Ikkyu
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. -- Josh Billings
The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance. -- Arthur Smith
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant. -- Antony Garrett Lisi
Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes. -- Adele
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. -- Thomas Bulfinch
On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant. -- Christian Dior
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. -- Ernest Bramah
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. -- Bertrand Russell
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious. -- Bill Nighy
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down. -- Julie Burchill
When I was little... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so - she was so elegant. -- Angelina Jolie
I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example. -- Amory Lovins
Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant. -- Carolina Herrera
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high. -- George Catlin
Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace. -- Christian Dior
John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children. -- Kitty Kelley
I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way. -- Steven Cojocaru
The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed. -- Chris Bangle
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. -- Edward Witten
If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance. -- Bruce Springsteen
My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me. -- Robert Fulghum
My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man. -- Michael Haneke
Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house. -- Wallace Shawn
I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade. -- Diego Della Valle
True simplicity is elegant. -- E. L. Konigsburg
Cats are always elegant. -- John Weitz
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant. -- Maya Angelou
Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I wish I could be elegant. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
No elegant woman follows fashion slavishly. -- Christian Dior
She is elegant rather than belle. -- Wilfred Owen
Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting. -- Elijah Fenton
Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant. -- Erin Morgenstern
Let us be elegant or die! --Amy -- Louisa May Alcott
I like clothes that are elegant and comfortable. -- Kim Edwards
I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks. -- Bella Thorne
Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin -- Bruno Freschi
I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing. -- Renee Fleming
To be truly elegant one should not be noticed -- Beau Brummell
There's nothing better than an elegant cry of despair. -- William Goyen
Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life. -- Charles Dickens
Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer. -- Pam Houston
Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant... -- Moshe Feldenkrais
I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding. -- Ivanka Trump
The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle. -- George Sand
Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand. -- Donna Tartt
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant. -- Coco Chanel
Will screw them hard, fast, and in an elegant manner. -- Haim Bar-Lev
Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy -- Jenny Holzer
This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number. -- Henny Youngman
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. -- Honore de Balzac
You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts. -- Gianni Versace
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. -- Henry Fielding
The elegance of the moon teaches us to be elegant and kind. -- Debasish Mridha
We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves. -- William Styron
Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument. -- Howard Shore
To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful. -- Vanna Bonta
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois. -- Donatella Versace
It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant. -- Katarina Witt
I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless. -- Massimo Vignelli
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe. -- Richard Dawkins
For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials. -- Bernd Heinrich
A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. -- Lord Byron
No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca. -- Richard Reti
Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant. -- Paulo Coelho
The real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet. -- Christian Dior
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. -- Amy Bloom
For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong. -- Ellet J. Waggoner
But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony. -- John Fogerty
I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant. -- Akiva Goldsman
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch -- Marc Newson
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. -- Andre Simon
My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant. -- Christian Louboutin
Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet. -- Ashley Wagner
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. -- William Shenstone
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity. -- John Tuzo Wilson
I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth. -- Cecil Beaton
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work. -- Steve McConnell
Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice. -- Harold E. Varmus
Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person. -- Irwin Thomas
What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears. -- Carine Roitfeld
Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person. -- Irwin Thomas
It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity. -- Vivienne Westwood
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum? -- Catullus
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms. -- Salvador Dali
My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic. -- Eva Green
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity. -- William Baziotes
It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same. -- Hermann Maier
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A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth. -- Nick Lowe
Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core. -- Margaret Way
Simple ingredients can be used to make elegant dishes with just a little extra attention to detail. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I think I always keep coming back to certain pieces, the idea of essential, elegant, easy wardrobe. -- Garance Dore
Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in. -- Hedda Hopper
Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. -- Edward Abbey
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine. -- Carl Sagan
I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up. -- Vanna White
It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. -- Stanislaw Ulam
My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar. -- Sue Grafton
The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature -- Carl Sagan
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed. -- Honore de Balzac
There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful. -- E. F. Schumacher
This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not. -- Elaine Stritch
A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended. -- Jonathan Maberry

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